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NAVAL NEW7.,.- PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 1.-;-;-CiitilC d-)W11 the H arbour, ;Ind anchored in the Sound, his Majesty's Rhin, 0136 gun‘ after a complete repair. . Sailed the Morning Star Cartel, Capt. Ltvzs, for ;.\,l: - )daix, with wounded _'French prisoncr - i, and se veral women, and children : Another Cartel 4100 sailed from hence on Wednesday last, for the same , With• wounded prisoners. Arrived the Hailepin Hired Armed Ship, Lieut. ANSTRUTEIL4I, from a etuize. ''" SErr. 2.—Arrived the Rotator, DAviDsoN, and ...- Margaretta, JAMES, from Sunderland ; the Shil lelah, PETTITT; from Newhaven; the' Dolphin Store Ship, front th'e Eastward ; the Spanish- Lug gt•rs, St. Anna, Nostra Senora, .and Nostra'Senora :iranasco frOm Seville., laden with, steel and iron, hound to .Cadiz, detained and sent in here by the John Bull Letter of Marque ;.the Haytian Admiral's (GooDAL.t.' ) Ship ; Lady Esther Stanhope, from the Downs; his Majesty's Ship Acosta, of 36 guns from the Downs, with, 'a Convoy, Also arrived the Cartel which sailed from 'hence on Wednesday last fin' Morlaix. Passed down the Channel, from the Eastward, the Mediterranean Conoy. A large Brig Sloop of .War stood into the Sound from Wein, to call out the Ships at this Port bound there, and sailed again im mediately; in consequence, the WOolwich, and Prevoy ante Store Ships; the American Schooner Resolution, BATES j the Schooner William, D the Ship Juliana, CRITCHELL and the. Schooner Eleanor, WARD, sailed to join the Fleet, when the whole proceeded down Channel with a-layout-a ble wind. . The ifroolwich, and Prevoyante, Store Ships, have on board Marines, for Lord COLLZNGWOOD I 3 Fleet, in the Mediterranean. Arrived the Swallow Sloop of War ; and his Ala jesty'i Schooner, "'Teazel, from the Wetward. The following ships are expetled h ere , frOpi,the the Scheldt, with 6000 frenth prisoners - on board, vii. Revenge, Illustrious,- Bellows, Orion, Alfred, .Hero, Namur, Mariboroug4, and *Resolutidn, of the line, and the ‘Serqpis, store ship. • Sailed the Edward, HARKga, for OpOrto ; the :Nymph, .transport, - Capt TRACEY; to the We s tward; and the Two BrGthers, CHANTLER, for Ptince Edward's Island. •t• • T Arrived the Hawke, Percy, with 1. 1 :.e loss of her main top-must; and the Pomona, LAwsEN, from London. • . PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 3.—Arrived the Sparroiv hawk lioin a ciuize, and Ilaniy guu-brig with a convoy from theDqwns. Sailed the Blazer gun-brig for the Downs. FALMOUTIii:SEPT. .I.—Sailed last evening the Miranda cu ter for the Coast 'of Spain._ The - Express packet, Capt. BoxLocK, with mails for Cadiz, sail, to-morrow. Arrived yesterday the Princess Mary, Po6ocK , with mails horn, Cadii, nine days passage ;.:the brig Lord Collingwood, Capt. L. BLAN e, 17 days,. from Gibraltar, with wine, &c. for Guernsey; she is put under quarantine : spoke on the: 21st ult. the ship New John, of and froth LiVerPool, for Barbadoes, Cvith another ship in convoy. This day arrived the Phipps schooner, fro Ply mouth, to take on board a Messenger and dispatches for Spain 'and the brig Ann, Capt. 1V1.15i.) ; i: - ALD, from Lothion for Gibraltar. Dov SEPT. 3.—Arrived the Felicit.e French :r-gate, captured by the Latc-lit in the West Indies ; she experienced a dreadful hurricane on the night of the Ist of August, on leaving the Island, and was car foundering. DEAL, SEPT. 3 . —Arrived 14 Sarpen brig, from- Flushing Dr yaw and Zephyr, with sick ;men otz board; horn ditto. Sailt3dadivisionof Arailspoits for . itarnsgate - pier, German legion on board, to 'disembark 3,. another 77itti the Royal artillery on board, 'for •:I)eißiver, .• 1 Tsta.--AftTs.—Mr. Baowt.r, whose skill as an en grater of wins has,, on,inaoy occasions, rivalled the -11 .cautiftel.retnai ns of antiquity in this province:9f the -MlS,_has lust fi n i s h e d a series of portraits on corne 'win, Which have-hitl4 - gratified the connoisseurs, • - ;aud•-vvh-ich are entitled to:a cianSpienOus place~tn the most distingui s h e d cabinets. of Europe. Th e chefthcse portraits 'ate the 14te Duke 'of Bspioao,, Lord NELSON, Lord -WIILLINO,TON, Mt. PITT, Ati. _Fox, and . Mr. WHITBREAD. -They are all ex ael in similitude,i and 'are executed in the true style of ge-7. • nuine taste,. The DUlce of BEDFORD appears with •y tnbo appropriate - to his agricultural pursuits.— Lord NELSON is represented in the dia - rafter of Notane,rxith the trident, and a crown Or.mingled laurel and oak, to exemplify 'hiS vast achieyel4nts, and the .4 , 4 •wpciden walls": in which they were-accom . plished. - It is withpride as well as pleapreThat we WI-Ake the high merit i these works, at the present period, when all the other departments of art are supported in such a manner as to do honotir:lo the • country, since these admirable labours of Mr.Bnowrz,. in an art now little encouraged, prove that there is no inovince open to the exertions of genius in'which Englishmen will not rise to ail predicable excellence. A 74 gunship was lately.launched at :Bombay,; as als• a Frigate at Penang. These, we understand, are the .forerunners of several ,others which are .about to be built. • Mr. Dtc4Num . 'of the late Theatre. Royal Drury Y ., lane, when the season of Vauxhall Closes, goesto:, Nottingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Dtablin, cork, -Edinburgh, GlasgOw, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and 13trminghatn. He: means to solicit pertnissicn, of the Mayor of each place, to perform on the same plan as INCLEDON and BANNISTER; friCatling to sing those airs in which he has been successful in Londow . Mr. DIBDIN, .sen. whose experience 'and whose talents are deservedly.in high repute, - is preparing the - Whole scheme of the entertainment. .., 14 ..., 4P.41,511 PriPEAS., .._ , (PRIVATE .UTTERS.} .* -- „_11 .-:- .• — • :' , 4 - , , 4* ...1L'L'..7.,/ ). , ' ,. ',.., 4 :,., COPY (71 , A LETTSR,, FRoM Ati OFT. ICER UNDlilt LORD. :7L VI 1.1.1: GAZETTE LXTRAORDInIn'- 4 4, 1 :,5' T 4" 28, 1?30j. 'cuatrirAm,.DATED itAiliZ - , AUG. Lt•Itl : frOm General Don Francisco 31 7 4negks!:;:-- .: " I write from head-qtiarters, where Sir -Eyre - this MOST EXCELLENT Slg,—At hall„at , t,sr n%e .... :, . C' ole and manv'titlier- Officers of rank, are sum moroing, the army under my ccimmand,was aitacl.- 'none,' tO : attend die Commander , in Chief. This ed by the- ' enesnyat ..Aitnoti#;.°N,.:'*i'd ; Pt' seven the '.- assembly of Gerieral 'lind .- Na% al Officers, at • such a fire, as well'iii artillery as MuSir6try, bggt-n6--gene7 tnotnent'of soSpense, nliitirally leads US to suppOse ral and vigorous along the-wiaole line. The nom- . tliat 'our future 'movements are the subject of their hers of the forceattackiog. is Were consit(erable, as, ' considerations; and though they are concealed from noidonbt, they exceeded ft'.:-;,00u• men. Ourtroops the . knovvledge of the - junior ranks, yet it does • not fougla*vitiely for , nine bouts, during five of which ' reignite great penetration, from the present position a dreadful lire. was liept•ttp . ii but the enemy having. of the army, to suspect that, we have reached our obtained possession of a height on our,leli, acquired utmost range. - .-. an advantage or position,, and., were on the point of i • " The possession of Flushing will probably be of surrounding' us, which circumstance determined me i great importance, both in. a 'commercial and in a toletteat;.covering the. first division with the se- military point of -viow :, on the one •hand,' it will cond,.whi,ch till then su ff ered least. The national f ac ili tate the intidditction ofour manufactures on the honour has :been supported, though we lost a num- Continent, and on thr other, interrupt the enemy's ber of men, and many brave officers'; but it is esti- naval movements from the East to the West. Mated .that the loss of the•enerny cannot be less than " E very t hi ng appears to proceed in the most 3600 Men. ' I cannot at - present send your Excel 7 cordial manner possible 'between our two Corn lency the details, - which' I will do as I shall have tnanders." time. Major-General .Don Roman de Carivajal has gone post front Tembleque to take the command of la Carolina, and, collea there all the troops possible, till I shall airive at the Sierra with the army. God preserve your Excellency many years. • . . VRANCISGGVANEGAS. Headquarters, Camernaz, Aug. it, 1809. 4 . ,Williarnstadt, Aug. 27. " 'The 24th was the day'fixed, for commencing operationi against Lilo ; but the inundations are so extensive in every direction, and the enemy are so 1 - strong at'Ant'werp and at Bergen.op-Zuom, that the idea of advancing in that direction is abandoned, and we hear that a large - cletachnient of our army is to attack Williamstad and Helvoetsluvs. In the latter there are ! Dilly - 1600 men, ,and 'at the former there are one ship- of go . gums, one large 'frigate, two 1-schooners, and 40 gun -boats, under the command of Admiral - De ViTynter; and other gun=boats are daily, jonung him ftoni Holland. • " The squadron under Commodore Owen, con ! h,isting of the Clyde, -littisar, Thalia, Raven, Bad .ftenard; Protelior, Indignant, Attack; and CAUIz, AUG. A4.— : Ailvices have .been received from OCileral Vanegas, that he bad been attacked on the s.th, .by 14 or 1 5,000 olthe enemy, on the banks of tho Tagus, but that he. had repulsed them with great dots and glory to our arms. - 0n the btli he was, we are informed, again attacked, and the enemy again repulsed, our troops having on both occasions displayed the greatest valour ,and enthu siasm. They write from Seville, that the advanced guard of our army had had an engagement with Soirlt, whom they forced to fly disgracefully, taking from him two pieces of cannon. Lord Collingwood has sent advice,by means of Senior Cotrpigni, that Trieste has been ei , acuated. . . SEVILLE GAZETTE EXTRA O RDINARY, AUG. 8.- - By accounts -received front Gen. Cuesta, we learn, that the combined 'English and Spanish army was i Fla A loadedmbro-head bri g; o.' on Friday, by a Danish privateer. is •stated to have been captured off at Puerte del Arco Bispo, on the right and left bank of the Tagus, watching Marshal Soult. The celebrated,Mis.. 'CiAIiKE is, it is stated, at . , . FROM -THE SEVILLE GAZETTE OF AUG. 15. Brighton,. accompanied` by Mr.- DowLER. They Letter troth Gem Vanegas to the Minister at War, reside on the East Cliff, and the Lady rarely appears relative to the detail's os the action on the sth: abroad until the approach of night concealS , her from MOST EX= .LENT SIR,—At half alter five - in the general observation. afternoon of the 4th, I received a dispatch from The Mail from Heligoland states, that the Danish Captain-General Don Gieg.• io de la Cuesta, in which garrison of the fortress of Christianioe, in BOrn he communicated to me his determination to break holm, had revolted, imprisoned the .GOvernor and : up th4•' ti:e, , iii., to follow the English Army, which Otlicers, and ,embarked on board two ships and two had marched that morning .to 'meet Soult, who was boats, for the purpose, as is stated, of deserting to . •advancing by-Placentia., - As .1 • foresaw that the. the ; British squadron, having previously spiked the ~, my wider 'my command would be attacked, as the cannon of the fOrtiesS. They . were met, .how :soon as Joseph Napoleon and Vidor, who were at H ever, soon after their putting. to sea by .a Danish Iliescris and Marquedas, the former with 16,000 prirateer, which captured the two boats, but the men; and fhe latter with 10,000 men, should have ships escaped. ' •' • '-- - - ---i' •:. _ nnoticeof.that movement, I proceeded on the Meru- ,_ The follyWing,'hea'ring,;aateo the 14thult. ' has ieig of the sth to Aranjuez, accompanied by the been ted4ived frotri the neiglilachirhoood Of Berlin ; Commandants General of - the Artillery, and other , " The Eniiiefbt' r!iinsria"?..i4 :- rii ml ribruir coih- Officers of the Staff, to, examine the positinns'of the mand of the. army, whigh, 006 t the Hungarian's, different corps, and point out those which theronght a lid tli..! 5111 (~I''l .., '''l - V • se,tlrtk ar,r'cpisi t ted to` be still ~_' :. ' -, :g4 4 4 ~.. , to occupy, .rp order to avail therhselVes properly :of 1.7.4 4 ,00(, 5...,..„• . ..e, ~..4- It . ,ake.,..r_s, are at Krem the advantage of .theground. Brigadier Lacy, who , sir, the rignt \ijig at.,* , ;(tin . _ , w,47•pg"t4 . ; l;ift , at . tint with his division , formed vanguard on the bridge lilsca. A ostc,'i2l4!)4q,ekerdAkeygirtages, !at•Ra4l), of Largo, had .two leagues to march to re-pass' the on the :3,1 iir s -:314;: littftlye;tll7,4:6ll7 - that 'tire, 'ragas, by the bridge de la Reyna, tile only oee in . prOtnineric:s er Y '.- ;;y. ••pecl a .ttpc6;bile not'•' a 4 4,.. , proper condition; and it being very easy for, the F:1118b11,61 - the i Coriffitt6ns ,ha • qiilpir?d. ,. ''YhtrAg enemy na,cut ofd that division, 1 ordered that, leav- , vi: 4 l.4teArw j.§,l:,,gr - t r e.txectrg tlie.pe:lia t01i . , ..,rit - ls. ing there a party of cavalry, it should retreat, and . si'a. 1:1 - le il*Ae 1 if: tiosin 11 el. o r .5W antra - is' tic). e 1:24 t• ,:4,ttft . •• •• • at I , !t s *; • take post in Lasdor Collas. I afterwards' resolved, lolgerAvetog4t.. , _ ..,' i ;, that, in case Of an attack, the Cordillera de •Ceros ' ' 'Ale e - '''l'l44'`C -ri er al' I . 7€l3t t e=talted immediately adjoining Co Thittgola should be ciecu'.. for htiViiiks r,4 flie'Duke of f nsAuct , oelg'to pied, and that the passage of the river should be , pb- , i escape, 'an ei:t4'4flc i atlietlk ut iltlf .. 4 - e,apd Els stinately defended. Having taken these precaution- tietti. .Tl 4. t* - 6', lop , aramspiatrvdd, with q, ~, , ~ ary measures, the only ours which circumstantes. ?.1 . v.- rii6o,,al: sale , gos, „iv :ver e . cot off then permitt e d,' retired to•my head-quarters ; put 4,.biy...Prilcil d o 'MOT, ',..iip1ie,.r7915f4n 1./Iblitt, abrier, ! scarcely had I been there three hours, when I re- I,.Ps,ss,iy.d by" Danish,' (IfilsSedrk ., dl: 'qktief i al - Ekvarld's ceived advice from Brigadier 'lion Pedro Augustin. t -corps. General' OgtifitigkrktViiliOl 6 4itd to "take the Giron, whO, on account of his . seniority,:Command- . FornmanA of Gi - rielt i te4hei SC9WS: ed the ihree'dMsions, that several columns of the " TIT', Dufelie•Gener'll Gratien,' who had been enernyils, infantry,.cavalry;, and artillery, appeared on ' hastily • maraieg to 1 - lanai•er` with 6000 men, to co the bridge of Largo, and that-a part of,tl'em had' al- operate in the' reduction of "!.be ' Brunswia:tarps, ready passed it. I successively received other advice's has. been ordetedLO - 7t-rolland. The Westphalian that the eneniv's force-'continued increasing, and troops are alSO"g9Ati polo Bi - erueti to Oldenhurgh ;- froth every appearance, I was convinced that the i and the'DanesTrord, f ilinPpo:ite hanks-of the Weser enemy intended a serious attack,. and I believe'd that , -tire expected to folldiv. the smile fbgd:` - - - they might bring forces upon our rear from Toledo, , "The Liug of •Sa-soriy, his Queen, 'and datYgli or from' the lord . of Anoire.. To: meet these dangers; , ter; returned' to th'esden on the. : ith'iliSt. ' ' " We learn frotu''solland thdt 6.v0 realriients Of I ordered Gwion immediately to re-pass the Tagus , -,,50,, • , , ! ., 0 „ . j at Lacy,. that he might take 'position . in the 'Cerros Dutch Jews are aimos . complete. '(fin` r's comMcnd-.• de'Ontigola, which I had pointed out, and defend ed by the son of the 'rich' h.inker, lioas; at the Hague;. the passage of the river, and the -other positions, where they are trained." inch by inch, and if ,he should be obliged' to retreat, We understand that Cuxlnlven is now oc cu pi e d to retire upon Ocana, whence:l ordered the fourth ;by a 'detachment of French troops. division to march, and take post au' the heights: to Pii . ..,BoLLE's regiment, :ender the command of the lift of the high.jo.ad from - that town to 'Aran- ,\la'jf2fr BessEi', 6 atriountiner to 7'oo men, have em , juez, with the-threefold view of covering that royal barked a l t Portsmouth for Sicily. . , seat, if - necessity should require, to cover the retreat ~ Died, .on'the 20th May last, of the yelli")W' fever, of the troops, inaase.of misfortune, and to resist thd `after : five days lltifess,• CHRISTO PHER WALLIS: Ad expeaed attack. by Toledo or Anuver, _sending a ing Lieutetient'Of his Majesty's ship' Satellite, Off'St. part of his cavalry in the dieedien Or` that ford) to Domingo :. l..ias„.Tiroklit,r,,to Mrs: CAMPBELL, ci observe the enemy's - troops, arid oppose theil: ts.. .elegant .slily A 4 4V;rt § ‘During twelveyears service, sa c l r ge. •v %VL •• • i ~1, ;lee had been s, n in •vl4 - le!igagernents, particularly. at What follows is an account of the. adion, coro,-, :Trafalgar, whele,:4l . was a . rnate in the Ajax ; and quent on the attack, • coniiithlg of minute detail 4 or afte'e• being as rubel) :te l lcived, 'lie died l as ninth of clire- a. the goo&condua of tlie,i'eVeral.lialtalidris '.and ithfi s ajeo4,'As , any - youtt,OP'..dit-I, in t Commanders. After some commeiidiiuon4, and r,7, tlglitecidlKing ati46o, tree Coimtry. -"! .. t , commendations of particular Corps antfoifieer, i t i l L . Ze learn '4prict i cleto4 jrGui the 'lVatt l ic‘,' that 1.; letter of Vanegas thus doneludes c:--•;-" Tho los4 4, ~,I iii pOrtsT Of A Detiinarlt ail - giv l ed. •ii -9- . now - - ; ... .. t oi.,en to ‘ . 3 suffered in this action was about 260 men killed lid .allheotral vessels: ' - ''' , : - Wounded'; and' :thar of the ' enemy, 300 or die tfoX;., • • IX-10:' ~. . /“..:;,::::,rAq.' ' ”,,. CURN . 'EtCIittNGP) 8 0 Ti 4—The =fresh arrival's' of , mer, and abOu.t,ooo of the latter. ' ' - i .. Wheat to-day, make but au. inconsiderable .supply " God preserve your Excellency:Mail , 'years. " FRANCISCO VANEGAS." early in the forenoon fust - 4 samples were at a sm a ll ad vance, the general _..,..5a1e . afterwardS had little • Head-quarters, Tetnbleque, Aug. 8. = '= fluthlation ;.. Ilarley,; : and „Malt - ,likewise ; Rye is cheaper; White -rc:as also; Beans of ,the two kinds at about late prices; /here are large supplies of oats, and, excepting fines.., this article is rather lower ;. fine American Flour alsO, . , . _ Thrasher; yittends 'from Browershaven into the Volpe Hiak. The Raven, commanded •by Capt. Flanchett; who lately displayed so much gallantry . ,before ,Flushing, forms 'the advanced guard towards' IWilliatnstadt.—We look for Sir R. Keats, with part of his squadron, in a day or two.' DIED. , b`'" Yesterday =caning, at a quarter. past nine, at his house in Piccadilly, George ; Coyentry,, Earl of. Cave,n"ry,. .Viscount Deerbirrst,. Lutd' Lieutenant of the..Courity, and Itec6n4er of the City of Worcester. His Lordship was born April 26, r7zz, rind is succeeded in ins titles by Viscount Deertit•st, his Lordship's eldest Sbn, who,ltas been blind these fourteen- yes rs. • • • • At Brotnpton, aged 21. Wiiliant Moore, • Esq. son of the fon. and Rev. Robert Moore. . . On the with ult. at Waldershare, in Kent, Lord Henry Stuart, tourth..son.ut.the Marquisial Bute • ..ar.l3 an.tlie3oth, on her road to town, Lady Henry Stuart, hi widoof, daugh ter.of t"te Cat e Earl of (..; From the LONDON GAZETTE, Sept. 2, 1 80. • D9uming-Street, *Sept . 2,, 1808... • A Dispatch, of whiCli the following is a Copy, was, on the Soth Winn°, recelved at the Office of Lend Viscount Castlereagh, one of his Majevy's Principal Socretariei of State, from Lieutenant,Gcoeral.Lord Viscount WC.lHngion, dated Ddleytosi, Bth August 1809. Deleyvisa, Aug. 8. M' LORD,—.I - apprized your Lordship on take t instant, of the advance Gf a French corps towards t• e Puerto de Banos, any of the probable einliarrassimaits to the Operations of the army, which its arrival at Plasencia would- occasion; and 'these embar , ss meats having since 'existed to a degree so co: - e siderable, as to oblige us to fall back, and to ta. e up a defensive position on the Tagus, I am induc, d to trouble you more at length with an account of what has passed upon this subjea. When I entered Spain, I had a communication with General Cuesta, through Sir Robert Wilson and Colonel Roche, respeaing the occupation - 01 - Puerto de Banos and the Puerto de Perales, the ff mer,of which, it was at last settled, should_ be held by a corps to be formed under the Marquis de la Reyna, to consist of two . battalions from Genera Cuesta's army, and twd from Bejar ; and that the, Puerto de Perales was to be taken care of by the Duque del Parque, - by Detachments froth the g:iiti. sou of Ciudad Rodrigo. doubted of the capacity of the garrison of Cin dad. Rodrigo to make the Detachment to the latter, but so little of the effeaual occupation of the foriner, that , iii writing to Marshal. Beresford on the 17th July, I desired• him to look to the Puerto de Peraies, but that I considered Banos as secure, as appears 'by the extra& of my letter which I inclose. . On the 30th,intelligence was receiveciat Talav'era, that twelve thousand rations had, be'en ordvrQi,i. at: Fuente Duenos for the 28th, and twenty-four t hou sand at Los Santos for the same day, for a Ft e. 6411 corps, which it was believed, was on its march to:. wards the Puerto de Banos. General Cuesta expressed some anxiety respecting this post, and sett me a messa ge , to propose that Sir Robert Wil6on should a sent there with his corps. Sir Robert was on that Day at Talavera,: but ,his corps was in the mountains towards Escalotta ; and as he had already made himsel very useful in that quarter, and had been near Madrid, with which city he had had a communication, which I was desirous of keeping up,. I proposed .that a Spanish corps should be \ sent to Banos without loss of time. I could not prevail with General Cuesta, although he certainly admitted the necessity of a reinfaiCe tnent when he proposed that Sir Robert should be sent to Banos; and lie was equally sensible with myself, of- the 'benefit tti be:derived to. the cause, from sending Sir Robert back to Escalona. • At this time we had no further intelligence of the enemy's advance, t han that the rations were •or- L i dered ; and I had hopes that the enemy might - be deterred from advancing, by the intelligence of our success on the 28th, and that the troops in the Puerto might make some defence; and that, under c.ircumstances, it was not desirable to diert pert Wilson from Escaloria. r,,. On tile 30th, s hoWever, I renewed my application , to I..ienerat Cuesta, to send there a Spa:lish d' isirra of sufficient strength;in a lett . er to Gener2.l O'Do .noglitle,. or. which . ruclo.e. a copy, but without ff " • e c ; and' he` died not detach (3 f etteral court IVA the morning ot after we had heard that the enemy; had enter d 13ejai, and: it was . o'Ovious that the troops in the Puerto would rri'ake- no • • • fepce. „ ' • , Cl.n„the.ed : v?e received accounts, that the enemy had' en telcis Plasencia in two cOlurrins. - The Marpinis.de 1 1 1 Rej na, whose Iwo battali6ns consisted Of. - Only six ; hundred,l,rnen,, with only 20 rounds of amniunitioq . each man, ".retired from the Puerto and Plasencia, without firing a shot, and Weni to the bridge of Almaraz, which he deelated that he intended to remove ; the bat talions of Bejar dispersed without making anyfre. sistance. • The Genei-al called upon me on that day; andp.ro that hal • . posed f !if the army yhuuld march to ihe rear to oppose' the enemf, 'while the other half should maintain the. p•)st at Talavera. ML ansWFr was, that - if by half the army, he trie'anChairot each army, I cupid only 6ns vver that I was rody either 'to go or to stay with the whole • British army, but that I could not separate it. He there desired. me . to chuse whether I would go or stay, 'and 'I preferred to go, from thinking ‘ t hat the British troops- were most likely to do the business without Contest ; and from•being of it was more important to us than toT the Spanish army, to open the communication- through Plasencia, although very important to them. With this decision, General Cuesta appeared perfectly satisfied. ' . • The movements of the enemy in our front since the Ist, had induced the to be of opinion, that de spairing of forcing us at-Talavera, they intended to force a passage by Escalona, and thus to.open a Communication with the French Corps coming from Plasencia. This suspicion was confirmed on the night of the 2d, by letters received from Stir Hobert:Wilson, of Whit% T inclose cope and before I quitted Tala- , -Vera on the 3d, 1 waited Upon• General O'llunoghne i 'atid ConVer‘ed with him upon the whole of our si tuation, and . pointed out to him the posiibiiity that in the case ofthe enemy coming through Escalona, General Cuesta might find himself obliged to quit Talavera,, before I should be able to return to him and I urged him to coked all the carts that could be got, in order to -remove our hospital •At his desire I put the purport of this conversation in writing, and sent him a letter to be laid befard - General Cuesta, of which I inclOse a copy. The British army marched on the 3crto Oropesa, General Bassecnurt's Spanish corps being at Cimti nello, where I desired that it might halt the next day; in order that .1 might be nearer it. About five o'clock in the evening, .I heard that the French 11;14, arrived from Plasencia at NAvaimo rat, whereby they were between us and the bridge, of Almaraz. , • About an hour . afterwards I received from-Gene ral O'Donoghue the • letter and its inclosures, of which I inclose copies, announcing'to-me the in tention i3f General Cuesta to March from Talaver.: